Commonality
The requirement that class members share a common question capable of classwide resolution.
What matters is not that members share a question but that the answer will resolve an issue central to every claim in one stroke. The modern formulation raised the bar considerably and is frequently the point at which nationwide classes involving individualised conduct fail.
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